His great and then-radical insight was that true intimacy requires room for spontaneity, without the freedom of which we fall back on pretense and control, and back into games. Spontaneity, he observed, can only spring from unalloyed awareness, or what…
If you’re interested in adding dialogue groups to a class covering the philosophy of race or the philosophy of gender, then here is everything you need to get started. Feel free to download all of the rubrics and documentation, modifying…
Uniswap is a central institution of decentralized finance, or “DeFi”, as it allows punters to trade cryptocurrency through peer-to-peer technology, eschewing authority structures that manage typical exchanges like Binance and FTX. Uniswap was contacted for comment but did not immediately…
On TikTok, user @.dizay posted an idea that sounds somewhat plausible, which was then expanded on by @paulruddfanclub in a video that has more than 2.7 million views. It goes like this: D&D character Kas the Bloody-Handed was a resurrected…
That year, the pioneering X-ray crystallographer, Quaker, and peace activist Kathleen Lonsdale wrote in her quiet masterwork on moral courage and the key to a nonviolent world that “those people who see clearly the necessity of changed thinking… must persuade…
Valhalla is also likely just a dimension in the MCU, and it may be possible to travel to and from it since the multiverse was cracked open in the Loki season finale. So, Jane and Thor could meet again. Regardless,…
Surprisingly, the 29th MCU movie, which arrived in theaters Friday, misses the mark. In trying to balance comedy with drama and merging multiple classic comic storylines into a single narrative, Thor’s fourth solo adventure spreads itself too thin and ends…
Complement with Virginia Woolf’s literary ecstasy, then revisit the story of how Beethoven made the lawless miracle that is his “Ode to Joy.” While his litmus test for greatness is aimed at his own art, I find it applies equally…
One definition of love may be that the world becomes unimaginable without the person you love. This is what makes the death of a loved one nothing less than world-shattering. But from the vantage point of the brain, a death…
The Switch Online plus Expansion Pack plan is a premium tier of Nintendo’s online service. Along with all the features of the base service, it offers additional perks like access to a library of classic N64 and Sega Genesis games,…
She writes: In improvisation, the generation of material is spontaneous, but it’s never random. This in itself constitutes a paradox: If you can choose to play anything, with equal probability, what could make you choose any one thing — on…
The cold winds of crypto winter keep blowing. On Tuesday cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy, becoming the latest crypto company to falter since the market began to crash in April. A buying, trading and lending platform, Voyager Digital…